- 1. Where You Are Planted
He's as high as a georgia pine, my father'd say, half laughing. southern trees
as measure, metaphor. highways lined with kudzu-covered southern trees.
fuchsia, lavender, white, light pink, purple : crape myrtle bouquets burst
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- 2. Waiting On The Mayflower
i. august 1619
arrived in a boat, named
and unnamed, twenty, pirated
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- 3. Where Is It Clean
when your mother can rise from her place
on the pew during the early service,
early enough that the sun barely fills the sky
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- 4. Notes To My Nieces (or, Essays In Fortune-telling )
when i was younger, trees
were green, money was green, money
grew on trees, or trees grew up
and became money. now, money is clearly
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